| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1322.1 | Hollis RR | WECARE::PAMMER | | Mon Oct 02 1989 11:11 | 20 |
| Yeah, that was a great race. Most fun racing I've had all year.
I raced in the 19-29 group. The first lap was relaxed. I mostly
just floated up and down the peloton chatting with friends. Tried
to avoid the dogs in Pepperal. Did you see 'em? Once we made that
sharp right hand corner to the first serious climb the tone changed.
I stayed in touch with what was happening in the front. We made
a few attacks to saw off some of the squrrelly ones.
Once we came back into Hollis for the second lap there was 7-8 of
us that immediately formed a pace line and worked quite well together.
The pace started to quicken though the last hills. We blew though
Hollis and I wasn't quite sure where the start/finish line was.
We jammed the last hill and spread out in both lanes and a neat
little slug session. I was able to hold out and win by about a
half a wheel or so. As I said, I wasn't sure where the line was
so I mistimed my sprint I felt. The time was 1:03.29.
The roads were in GREAT shape! Great weather and some good riders!
Nice way to end the season. Time to heal the road burns from the
Bar Harbor RR, shake this cold and watch TV!!
Jim
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| 1322.2 | COW MUFFINS ANYONE? | WMOIS::C_GIROUARD | | Mon Oct 02 1989 13:14 | 10 |
| CONGRATULATIONS Jim! Fido was flipping out on that turn prior
to the hills, but on the second swing he was gone. I agree with
the tone of the day. It was fun, a little more relaxed than the
usual fair. I think it was like that because it was small (the
whole thing and the age groups). I'm definitely doing it again
next year only I'm gonna stay with the pack on the first swing
or pass out trying. How about dodging the COW MUFFINS? Did you
notice 'em???
Chip
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| 1322.3 | my $.02 | THOM::LANGLOIS | DT Data Networks | Mon Oct 02 1989 13:31 | 10 |
| I agree with the previous replies. A nice race, nice course, stupid
dog. Just before the hills on the second lap the wind was pretty steady
into your face (is it EVER behind you?) but it was great weather
overall. I haven't been on the bike too much lately so I won't
embarrass myself and post my time but I'm looking forward to doing the
race again next year. This was my last race in the 30-39 category so
next year perhaps I can make a decent showing at least in my own age
category :^) .
By the way, got some nice comments on the Digital bike jersey. I picked
it up last week from Tom Deloriea and wore it in the race.
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| 1322.4 | SLICK AS S___T | UCOUNT::PAMMER | | Mon Oct 02 1989 16:32 | 10 |
| Chip,
Nope...never noticed the muffins. I probably would've had it been
raining. I was in a RR in Upstate NY that had a cattle crossing
on a sharp corner, it was raining....needless to say, I ended up
in the ditch with REALLY DIRTY ROAD RASH...YUCK.
But, Hollis was fun. Every season should end so nicely, huh?
Jim
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| 1322.5 | Hollis + sunshine + bike-race = GREAT FUN! | ULTRA::TANNER | Don't let reality get in the way | Tue Oct 03 1989 12:07 | 13 |
| g'day,
I'm the bloke chip was referring to in the base note... from
Australia... I'm working at BXB 1 and managed to attend the race... and
I had a great time... really enjoyed the race and post-race
festivities! wonderfull weather... you guys certainly manage to time
the weather well.. lousy during the week and fine on the week-ends!!
:-)
thanks for the hospitality and friendship... and well done jim, I
wasn't too far behind.. 1:07 was my time..
paul tanner ( Canberra, Australia, Software Services)
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| 1322.6 | time to get the mountain bike out ! | USMRM5::MREID | | Tue Oct 03 1989 18:14 | 27 |
| Yeah, everything was picture perfect in the Hollis RR; beautiful
sunshine, comfortable temperature, no crashes in my (19-29) pack,
and I was sitting on Jim Pammer's wheel as we approached the major
hill where I knew the attacks would be made. Perfect. My teammate
Dan Massucco made a move and lead the pack up the hill; I saw Jim
glancing at Dan, and then get out of his saddle to hammer a bit.
I stayed right on his wheel ... then slowly slipped off. It's
called "burnout". I just quit at that critical moment in the race.
It reminded me of the scene in American Flyers where Marcus is showing
Davey a videotape of a race, and the exact moment where Marcus "quit"
in that race.I just didn't have the mental toughness to push it.
I watched as a lead pack of 7 riders formed: Jim, Rich Graves,
Dan Massucco, Andre Gougen; I should have been in there with them -
but I didn't feel like suffering that much. I eased up. Even before
the race I was "blahhh" rather than nervous and excited. After a long
season of racing most weekends since May, I guess the time has come
for me to take a break, have some fun, and rejuvinate my hunger for
speed on the bike.
Another teammate, Nancy (Stevens) Thomson did this race. She's a
top local (to Marlboro,MA) triathlete. This race was her first ever
bike race. She stayed with the women's pack until the climb, then
she dropped all the other women, and rode solo the last lap for
the win. The second woman was almost 4 minutes behind Nancy!
Mark
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